KHotkeys in KDE 4.1

I just upgraded to Kubuntu 8.10 in order to have a look at shiny new KDE 4. But amongst other minor annoyances, I had real trouble getting hotkeys to work. There are configuration options in the new System Settings panel (which is a huge regression compared to KControl by the way), but they seemed to have no effect.

After various attempts of fixing this problem myself, I finally found a (slightly hackish) solution: Re: Does khotkeys work on your KDE 4.1?. Seems like KDE 4.1 is still very beta…